Sunday’s windstorm felled two trees on the Cottage Grove resident’s property. Both Douglas firs of about 100 feet, one clipped the corner of his house while the other tore a hole in the garage, landing just 5 or 6 feet above Gonzalez.

Gonzalez tries to keep a positive attitude about life, and thousands of residents across Lane County were no doubt struggling to embrace the same concept Monday as they dealt with a second day of toppled trees, power outages and other scares from Sunday’s windstorm.

More than 1,000 Lane County households were expected to once again awake this morning with no electricity after the 60-mph gusts that temporarily knocked out power to 25,000 residents while damaging homes and businesses and threatening lives.

The Eugene Water & Electric Board initially had about 3,500 customers without electricity, including about 850 in the McKenzie River Valley east of Eugene-Springfield who were still without power Monday night. About half of those still without power live in the Deerhorn area.

EWEB repair crews spent most of Monday clearing downed trees, replacing broken power poles and restringing wire along a key power line between Leaburg and Vida that was knocked out of commission in the windstorm, spokesman Lance Robertson said.

That power line was re-energized Monday evening, restoring power to some customers. However, the remaining customers were likely to be without power overnight, he said.

Crews with the Emerald People’s Utility District worked to restore power to 12,000 customers. All but 1,200 of them had power by late Monday afternoon, the utility said.

The utility said its phone lines were jammed for much of Monday due to the high volume of calls.

Most main lines have been restored, EPUD said, but scattered outages were expected to continue into today in parts of Cottage Grove, Junction City/north Eugene; the Goshen/Seavey Loop area; Creswell; areas around Pleasant Hill; Lost Creek; the north end of Marcola and the Parsons Creek/Boiler Creek area; and Cheshire/Elmira/Veneta/Noti. Power was not expected to be restored in Dexter until today, EPUD said.

Lane Electric said it had restored power to most customers by 7 p.m. Monday but more than 500 were still without electricity in Westfir, Veneta/Fern Ridge, the McKenzie River Valley, Lowell, Cottage Grove and Creswell.

Residents should prepare for an “extended outage” by making necessary arrangements for food, water and shelter, the utility said.

Portland-based Pacific Power also worked to restore power to customers in the Willamette Valley and Southern Oregon.

But 9,000 customers remained without electricity statewide Monday and some may not see power restored until early Wednesday, the utility said.

The city of Eugene expects to reopen Floral Hill Drive between Summit and Fairmount Boulevard sometime today after closing it Monday because of trees leaning over the roadway. A tree crew will remove the trees, the city said.

The state Department of Transportation said Highway 36 was reopened to one lane of traffic a half-mile west of Highway 99, south of Junction City, after being closed for downed trees and power lines.

The signalized intersection of the two highways remained without power and motorists are required by law to treat the intersection as a four-way stop, the department said.

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